September 2010
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After Hours
If you close the door, the night could last forever Keep the sunshine out and say hello to never All the people are dancing and they’re havin such fun I wish it could happen to me but if you close the door, I’d never have to see the day again. If you close the door, the night could last forever, Leave the wineglass out and drink a toast to never Oh, someday I know someone will look...
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“Our greatest pretenses are
built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”
Eric Hoffer - robot-heart:
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“The most beautiful people we have known are those...
known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elizabeth Kubler Ross
“Discipline is freedom, Every time you take responsibility for your body, the...”
– Annemarie Postma
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Either OR
When I think about all of this in painful and detailed truth, I’m pretty sure I don’t want to die. Not really. The thought of dying, by any form, mine, others, or natural causes freaks me out. I don’t think I will make a very attractive corpse, I can’t imagine my family having to go through my stuff, sort out that which I left behind (In fact if I ever do have to go, I will...
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“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire…. Pain...”
– Charles Bukowski
“…I’ve committed to nothing…and that’s just...”
– Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)
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First Person: Black Like Me →
I really enjoyed reading this article, surprising as it’s not the kind of thing I usually get linked to. My friends are becoming thoughtful (shock.horror).
The last paragraph begins:
What I’ve found is that Italy is not so much about color as class. My dark skin will always be what people see first, no matter what country I live in. These days it’s most refreshing to live in a place...
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Friends with Benefits: Can Women Handle It?
Why Can’t We Just Have Sex Without Emotions?
Part of the reason is grounded in classic behavioral psychology. Remember reinforcers? Give a pigeon a treat every time he pecks a bar and he really wants to peck that bar. You and your FWB hung out as friends because of shared interests in politics, Proust, and baseball, not because you saw him as date material. You know he cheated on every woman he...
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I'm currently inspirired by..
After reading this article/interview in PaperMag, I have decided that I do not have to resolve this “real me vs fashion bitch” conflict, why not be everything? Is it possible to be able to write ‘real content’, whilst simultaneously writing fashion editorial pieces, and even fluff articles? Sally Singer did and still does. Here’s an excerpt: SS: My job at these...
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"I’m here. I love you.
…I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.” — Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
I hate to admit to being...
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Chocholate cupcakes and rye
As I walked into Vanilla Sky, not the real name, but definitely what I’ll call my vegan cafe slash bakery if I ever own one, I notice Cecillia pouring vanilla flavoured soya into a big paper cup, and I smiled to myself.
This does not freak me out anymore, once upon a time the fact that she starts to prepare my order whilst I am still across the street used to freak me out. Truth is this...
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"A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
…. enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own even if she never wants to or needs to… A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …. something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her dreams wants to see her in an hour… A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE … a youth she’s content to leave behind…. A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …. a past juicy enough that...
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Eleven Minutes
“I’ve met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I’m not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months’ time, I’ll be far away and he’ll be just a memory, but I couldn’t stand living without love any longer; I had reached my limit… Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and...
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McDonalds is evil...
Another fast food is evil post, I apologise, but really, I have to share this. It’s extremely unbelievable, yes, but it is also… Not suprising at all. I mean we knew this was never real food didn’t we?
How can a burger, bun, and fries look exactly the same 137 days later? HOW?!
New York artist Sally Davies took a Happy Meal sized burger and fries, put it on her living room...
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"First of all, love is a joint experience between...
but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus for all the stored-up love which had lain quiet within the lover for a long time hitherto. And somehow every lover knows this. He feels in his soul that his love is...
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And all that stands between the souls release ...